Martin Probst composes the offbeat music for the Eberhofer thrillers. The 54-year-old, who grew up on Lake Starnberg, also uses strange instruments in the latest provincial adventure “Guglhupfgeschwader”. A portrait.
Without this “boing-boing” Niederkaltenkirchen would probably only be half as weird. Martin Probst put the strange thing on his kitchen table. Looks like a party gag. But it is an instrument, possibly from Thailand, and sounds similar to a sitar: a pine brown lacquered miniature barrel with two long wooden strips of the same color, between them a single string that can be tuned using a peg with a round button.